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I'm reading Ανάβασις by Xenophon. Here Klearchos has basically said: "someone else might want to command at this point".
ὡς δὲ τῷ ἀνδρὶ ὃν ἂν ἕλησθε πείσομαι ᾗ δυνατὸν μάλιστα, ἵνα εἰδῆτε ...
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I recently came across the following entry on Wiktionary for the adjective "uenetus":
of or pertaining to the Veneti; Venetian
blue, blue-green, sea-blue
Why and how is this adjective ...
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I want a phrase for "to make a wish" instead of a single verb "to wish", in order to make the line of lyrics long enough for the music.
The noun for "wish" may be optatum,...
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This excerpt comes from lines 138-139 of chapter VIII of the 2003 edition of Lingua latina per se illustrata:
Quis saccum portat? Servus saccum portat. Quī servus?
Servus quī saccum portat est ...
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"Pater Iūliae est Iūlius". Would this be "Julia's father is Julius", or "The father of Julia is Julius"? I feel like it's missing some words to be the latter.
Does it ...
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I would like to translate the following part of Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘The Law of the Jungle’:
‘The strength of the wolf is the pack’
I know that google translate would not be appropriate, so would ...
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The Latin verb "stimulare" (to urge, to stimulate) comes from the noun "stimulus" (sting of a bee or a similar animal). Was it ever attested in the meaning "to sting (of a bee)...
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I was taught that one can use the '-que' suffix to string together multiple words, in a similar way to putting 'et' between them.
Are these two equivalent? Did one have a connotation in classical (...
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What is the origin for the word "sex" in its various grammatical forms (the noun "sex" and the verb "sex")? What is the historical definition of this word? How has it morphed into the definition of ...
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Sean Hannity is coming out with a new book called Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink. At the bottom is a perplexing subtitle in Latin:
VIVAMUS VEL LIBERO PERIT AMERICAE
Here's ...
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I am under the impression that men for the legions of the Roman Empire were conscripted across the empire, and so Latin could not have possibly been the first language to every soldier.
But could all ...
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As a continuation to my previous question... For the sci-fi story I'm writing, I need a Latin motto which would translate to "Let the fuckers rot!" (or, Ad usum Delphini, "Let the ...
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Many Classical Latin textbooks typeset their texts with (small and capital letters and) a broad selection of punctuation, like period ., comma ,, colon :, semicolon ;, exclamation mark !, question ...
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There were three maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi:
γνῶθι σεαυτόν (know thyself)
μηδὲν ἄγαν (nothing in excess)
Ἐγγύα πάρα δ'ἄτη (a pledge comes from folly)
The first two maxims make ...
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